The LAA impact on technology R&D: from past to future

LAA was the first special program at CERN dedicated to prepare the future beyond the ongoing CERN Large Electron-Positron Collider (LEP) construction program 1980 to 1989. Unlike all previous CERN projects (PS, BOOSTER, BEBC, ISR, SPS)LEP approval was obtained under the condition to stay within the CERN budget level. No extra project budget was assigned for this major European scientific infrastructure project! This required to set priorities: CERN facilities and many experiments had to be closed to free resources for LEP construction and for the ongoing proton-antiproton SPS collider experiments -one of the few European science programs leading to a Nobel Prize…